Word: intendancy
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...marines since 1916 into Caribbean combat. Summoning congressional leaders of both parties to the Cabinet Room, he explained that there were more than 2,000 Americans in the Dominican Republic, and there was no other way to guarantee their safety. "Our people have to be protected, and we intend to protect them," he said...
...water thrice daily." Below the sanctuary is a crypt of rubbly red rock, lined with relics that reveal the life of the 2nd century Jewish rebels who fought the Romans from their caves. Emerging from the sanctuary, the visitor travels along a 150-ft.-long roofless corridor. The architects intend this as a period of induced meditation for departing visitors...
...flew like a cast of characters. Had CBS paid $15,000 for the leopard coat that Actress Barbra Streisand wears in this week's CBS spectacular? No. Had CBS ordered the firing of Manager Yogi Berra when it bought control of the New York Yankees? No. Did CBS intend to enclose Yankee Stadium with a dome similar to Houston's new Astrodome? Emphatically no. Had CBS bought Comedian Jackie Gleason's $300,000 circular home as "a reducing spa for tired executives?" No, said Paley, it had bought the house to "induce Mr. Gleason to stay...
...discussion period that followed, Harris talked about his experiences in Democratic campaigns of the last ten years. He said that the bane of a pollster's existence is that "people have learned the right answers, and what they are willing to do, or how they intend to vote...
Woodrow Wilson's World War I pledge to "make the world safe for democracy" is nowadays often considered naive. President Kennedy spoke instead of "making the world safe for diversity." Yet the Wilsonian hope-which does not intend to impose democracy on anyone but only to create conditions in which it can live-remains a noble aim and a valid, long-range objective for American policy. The U.S. no longer insists that "real" democracy must conform to a particular version of the parliamentary or presidential system. But any meaningful definition of democracy must meet certain minimum conditions. The ancient...